What Fiction are you reading this week, April 17, 2022?

[hermetic]

Reading The Sellout by Paul Beatty. This was on that Funniest Books list I posted on 3/31. Sure enough, I laughed out loud on the very first page. Biting satire at its best. "The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality―the black Chinese restaurant."

Also from that list, Calypso by David Sedaris is my current audio entertainment. "Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best. Darkly hilarious." True on both counts.

What books are you hopping to be reading this week?
Have a lovely Easter day.

[TexLaProgressive]

1. "Black Cherry Blues" a Dave Robicheaux novel

By James Lee Burke

I have gone the longest ever without out actually reading a book, spending a lot of time listening to audiobooks and watching British TV.

A friend thought I would like this series because of my roots in southern Louisiana.

[rsdsharp]

3. I love James Lee Burke. Dave Robichaeux is his principal series

although Dave and Clete are getting a little long in the tooth to convincingly beat the hell out of the bad guys. He also has books involving the Holland family.

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4. HI!!!

I am so happy to see you. You know, audio books count as Fiction, as long as they are, you know, fiction. You know I always have one in my posts.

I'm really into British TV shows lately myself. Just watching The Black Adder for the first time. Hilarious.

The Robicheaux series looks quite good, too. Looks like there's 23 of them, going back to 1987. Several award winners.

Well, don't be a stranger. Hope life has been good to ya.

[TexLaProgressive]

7. Been well, a bit anxious about the near future

Worried a bit about world food supplies because the breadbasket of the world is being devastated by Russia. Sorry for the downer.

[hermetic]

9. Yeah,

S'ok. I feel the same way. I do like your Sig Line picture, though. I'd like to think they are...

[yellowdogintexas]

16. first time with Blackadder! I laughed until I hurt

watching it

[SheltieLover]

12. You might enjoy Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series

Hysterically funny cozies!

[TexLaProgressive]

14. Thanks looks like fun

[SheltieLover]

15. They are really grsat reads!

Enjoy!

[The King of Prussia]

2. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

It's an odd one. Groundhog Day meets Agatha Christie, and then some. I'm over 200 pages in and I don't know whether I like it yet.

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5. Okay, that sound interesting...

"Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others...
The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave readers guessing until the very last page."

Looks like you still have another 248 pages to go before you decide.

If anyone else want to find this book, it's actually the "7 1/2 Deaths", just for clarification.

[The King of Prussia]

6. Mine is called the seven deaths

Maybe the name is different in the US.

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8. Or...maybe...

when we look at this tomorrow, it will look different. Bwaaaahahahah. OK, maybe not.

[The King of Prussia]

10. Cheerio

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11. Cool!!!

[The King of Prussia]

19. An explanation

The book was called 7 Deaths here, but in the US because of a title clash with "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" the US title was changed to 7 1/2.

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21. Thanks for that

Book titles can be an interesting topic, how and why they came about. This is a bit odd, considering how many books there are with the exact same title. Guess it depends on who you know. Cheers!

[SheltieLover]

13. Just finished "Louisiana Longshot"

Hysterically funny.

Working through her Mudbug series (rereads).

Happy Easter, Passover, Spring!

[yellowdogintexas]

18. I have read the first book in the Mudbug series

and the Miss Fortune series

Enjoyed both.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. I finished The Courier last night

This is the first in the Relic Runner series is by Ernest Dempsey, who also writes the Sean Wyatt Archaeology adventure series

Former Special Forces operator Dak Harper needs a job.

Out of work and on the run after a shocking betrayal by his brothers-in-arms, the ex-Special Forces commando hasn’t stopped moving for months. He can’t. Some of the same soldiers who left him for dead in the Middle East still want his head. And as long as Dak's alive, they know they will never be safe.

Fate intervenes when an eccentric young millionaire offers Dak a gig hunting down stolen artifacts. The catch? His first assignment is to recover a priceless item that's in the possession of the most fear cartel boss in Peru.

This cartel doesn't just smuggle drugs, though. They have diversified into illegal gold mining, and human trafficking.

Dak finds himself caught between doing his job, and helping the people of the slums outside of Lima, whose suffering and squalor goes largely unnoticed by any developed nation's media. He learns of their plight through an unlikely introduction to a small boy named Hector. A bond is forged, and Dak knows he can't ignore what's happening.

With a corrupt mayor in the back pocket of the cartel, Dak is in for the toughest fight of his life to help the people of Lima, and recover an artifact that once belonged to the famed conquistador, Francisco Pizarro.

For Dak's backstory, read the Relic Runner Origin stories.


Now I am reading 19 Yellow Moon Road (Sisterhood #33) I just started it last night so am not very far in yet.

Book notes from Amazon:

Maggie Spritzer’s nose for a story doesn’t just make her a top-notch newspaper editor, it also tells her when to go the extra mile for a friend. When she gets a strange message from her journalism pal, Gabby Richardson, Maggie knows her services are needed. Gabby has become involved with The Haven, a commune that promises to guide its members toward a more spiritually fulfilling life. But Gabby’s enthusiasm has turned to distrust ever since she was refused permission to leave the compound to visit her sick mother.

Maggie wants to learn more about The Haven, and the Sisterhood is eager to help. It turns out The Haven’s founders are the sons of a disgraced Chicago businessman in prison for running a Ponzi scheme. They also have connections to a Miami billionaire with dubious sidelines. Soon, the Sisterhood gang embark on a search—and uncover a web of crime that runs deeper and higher than they ever imagined. And they’ll need all their special skills to bring it down…

[dhol82]

20. Decided to reread The Razor's Edge

FABULOUS!
Not quite finished yet but - wow. Just lovely. Maugham is really good writer.
Highly recommended.

I’ve got Of Human Bondage now waiting for me.

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22. Wow, from 1944

In reading about the book it mentions it contains Maugham's most brilliant characters and that "Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates."

[dhol82]

23. Yes. That adds to the novel.

The characters are so beautifully sculpted.